Posted on 10/13/2017 6:33:37 PM PDT by markomalley
Despite Chicago’s alarming, if select, murder statistics and routine singling out by President Donald Trump for gun violence, this lakeside metropolis was just ranked one of the safest cities in the world.
The Economist Intelligence Unit, a London-based research firm affiliated with the Economist magazine, named Chicago to its 2017 Safe Cities Index, issued Thursday — one of only three US cities to crack the top 20 — largely based on advances in digital security.
The annual ranking assesses 60 global cities using four factors: personal safety, health security, digital security and the safety of infrastructure.
Chicago, at 19th-safest, narrowly trailed the other top-20 US representatives, San Francisco at 15th and Los Angles at 18th. Tokyo, Singapore and Osaka topped the overall list, an order that has remained unchanged since 2015. Buenos Aires was the only city in the so-called developing world in the top half of the index.
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“Chicago fared best in digital security, jumping 12 places in the rankings and following just Tokyo and Singapore. The report gave props to an initiative in cybersecurity training through local colleges and the Department of Defense that Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced in January.”
This, so called, report sounds absolutely stupid with no real basis in real world scenarios.
They have “digital security” because Rahmboy gives a course on using letters AND numbers on their passwords? BS.
Safe, if you’re just now leaving ISIS due to not getting paid in six months.
That must be a very short list indeed comprising of the capital of Venezuela, Bagdad, Somalia, Honduras, Acupulco.
Remind me not to get my intelligence from the Onion.
Safe means "digital security"?
Every chance I get to NOT go to Chicago (or New York, or Birmingham, or Detroit, or anywhere in New Jersey), I take it.
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and I’m the queen of sheba ping
There are many questionable outfits producing an index to rank countries on everything, based on dubious methods. Best to ignore them. A bunch of international busybodies.
Misleading click-bait!
“This, so called, report sounds absolutely stupid with no real basis in real world scenarios.”
Obviously you didn’t see which cities were #20 through #60!
Did Rahm Emanuel commission this study?
“Remind me not to get my intelligence from the Onion.”
I will ask you to recheck the source
Well if you stay out of the black areas it’s certainly safer than, say, London.
“The Economist Intelligence Unit,......”
Must be the same organization rating the U.N.
Safe? See http://heyjackass.com/
Haha.. They’re not even trying anymore.
The sun rises in the West, The south pole is 99 degrees today, Polar Bears are large sweet friendly animals that you can pet, salt water crocodiles are big friendly reptiles and
CHICAGO IS SAFE.
My Bull Sh-t meter just broke.
Will call them "Fiat News," moving forward.
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